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Supply chain video: Managing your China supply chain (3)
Here comes the third part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy from PassageMaker. In this part he elaborates more on the problem of the products being copied by suppliers and suggests some solutions. One of the solutions is making a firewall. Actually I am going to write a separate post on that but till then [...]
Three issues in inventory optimizations and their solutions
In my point of vies, effective optimization of inventory in the supply chain is one of the most important tasks in SCM division but this task can very challenging. Below you can read some of my thoughts on the issues in inventory optimization and possible solutions for them: – It happens often times that as [...]
Evaluation of the statistical packages available in the market
For those of you who are looking for statistical software to do some analytics related to your supply chain tasks, INFORMS has done an interesting evaluation of the existing statistical packages available in the market which you can study it here. The evaluation compares the features and pros and cons of almost all the major [...]
RosettaNet Summit Highlights Future Opportunities in B2B
Maybe you are familiar with RosettaNet Community: The organization is a non-profit consortium which develops universal standards for the global supply chain, emphasizing bottom-line, measurable results. Generally I can say it´s more of a technical organization but focused on supply chain and B2B. This year, RosettaNet is combining its bi-annual Global Community Summit with the [...]
Supply chain video: Managing your China supply chain (2)
Here comes the second part of the presentation from Mike Bellamy from PassageMaker. In this video, he continues with giving examples of un-cautious procurement managers who went to China for one month to find suppliers, shared some product data with some chinese firms and by the time they were coming back, their products was already [...]
How to segment suppliers based on the supply chain needs?
Here comes a more explicit explanation of my earlier post: I saw a 2×2 matrix last week in SC Digest which was originally developed by Dr. John Gattorna, well-known academic in SCM area. Below you can see the matrix. The idea is to segment the customers not based on the size or profitability or similar [...]
What demand management solution is good for China?
Considering the the low transparency of operations in China, one question that comes to the mind is that: “What demand planning tools are better for companies which have China operations?” Well, the answer depends on whether the product demand is fast-changing or not. If not, it doesn´t really matter but for the other scenario, the [...]
Carly Fiorina´s keynote speech at CSCMP 2007 conference
At the CSCMP 2007 (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals) held this week in Philadelphia, keynote speaker Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, talked about some of the highlights of her career with HP in respect to supply chain. Even though she could inspire some people, I heard that supply chain guys like Dan Gilmore [...]
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